The largest airport in Thailand is planning to relocate 12 giant “demon statues” in a bid to calm facility employees who believe bad luck is attached to the figures.

Airports of Thailand (AOT) president Serirat Prasutanond said the statues located in the arrival concourse of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport will be moved to the check-in area at a cost of around US$54,785.

In a statement, Prasutanond said that the facility wants to install the statues in the check-in offer passengers and visitors to the airport a opportunity to appreciate the beauty of the statues.

But the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper reported that, Niran Thiranartsin, the airport’s director, had admitted the move was partly prompted by complaints from airport employees.

The “demon statues” have been blamed by shopkeepers for the problems they have endured at the facility, where supporters of the People’s Alliance of Democracy (PAD) had carried a siege last year and had threatened violence which had paralysed the whole country and has severely damaged its reputation as a calm and peace loving nation.

In a bid to boost morale of people working at the airport, the report said that the guardian spirit statues will be transported from the inner area of the passenger terminal to the check-in zone.

Suvarnabhumi Airport, also known as the (New) Bangkok International Airport, officially opened for domestic flights on 15 September 2006, and subsequently opened for all international commercial flights on 28 September 2006.[3]

The facility is presently the main hub in for Thai Airways International, Bangkok Airways, Orient Thai Airlines, PBair and Thai AirAsia.

The airport is located in the province of Samut Prakan , about 25 km east of downtown Bangkok. King Bhumibol Adulyadej chose the name Suvarnabhumi and refers to the legend of the golden kingdom to have existed somewhere in Southeast Asia.

The airport was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, and has the world’s tallest control tower (132.2 m), and it’s third largest single-building airport terminal in the world.

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